Mythgard Academy

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Mythgard Academy episodes

June 01, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 26
Join me tonight for our discussion of the last chapter of the book, looking at the rivers and beacon-hills of Gondor. We're finished!
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1 hr 34 min
May 23, 2022 MSA031: Alice’s Adventures, Session 1
Session 1: An Origin Poem and Foreshadowing. In a lilting and bouncy Introductory Poem, Lewis Carrol gives an origin story for the first book. Is it iambic heptameter or double quatrains of ballad stanza with which Carroll turns a pastoral poem into a demand by the Fates 3? He doesn't miss a trick, a twist, or a comical turn of poetic imagery, and in the end, he leaves an offering that should be taken seriously.
And we meet the Alice who loves to show off her learning. Her maths and her wonders and her manners meet with a degree of difficulty insurmountable, and she makes a mistake. It will not be the last.
Indeed, the first two chapters deal with Alice's relative size and desire to get through a small passage to the garden. But the whole thing starts with Alice easily popping down a rabbit hole foreshadowing many future improbably juxtaposed scenes.
Another foreshadowing has Alice thinking about just her head and not her body getting through. We know where that will end up, don't we?
But Carroll is not, here, imitating Cautionary Tales. Alice already knows them very well, such causes and effects won't stop her from considered action, especially where cordial and cake are concerned. And the effect? Surprise!
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1 hr 53 min
April 23, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 25
Of Silvan speech, Sauron's armies and dwarf voices.
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1 hr 51 min
April 15, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 24
Concerning Valinor, Galadriel and Mushrooms.
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1 hr 54 min
April 03, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 23
You do the Ruxoale and you turn yourself around...
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1 hr 37 min
March 26, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 22
Of various bans.
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1 hr 49 min
March 20, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 21
This evening we contemplate both the mytho-astronomical view of the cosmos and also badgers.
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1 hr 51 min
March 14, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 20
Tonight we finish Part II of the book, with some final thoughts about death, and begin Part III!
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1 hr 54 min
February 27, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 19
Tonight we finish Part 2!
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1 hr 46 min
February 21, 2022 MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 18
What about elvish rebirth? Settle in, folks...
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1 hr 43 min

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Mythgard Academy aims to make engaging discussions of fantasy and science fiction literature free and open to everyone. The Mythgard Academy program features live discussions with Dr. Corey Olsen, The…